This Week in Native Ads 7/12

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I was fortunate enough to catch the tail end of the ARF NATIVExSCIENCE event on Thursday, thanks for hosting me.

The trend that I picked up on is that branded content, entertainment are the slipstream from traditional tv through to digital. It’s the natural path that advertisers can take.

The traditional players of tv are coming in to the space and delivering high value quality executions.

And the summer of acquisitions continues…

Notable stories this week

The Players’ Tribune on its viral formula and critics: ‘we’re not here to polish reputations’. A good long read for the week. Also insight in to how they’ve been leveraging the World Cup to break open international markets.

Hearst UK combines scroll and attention (like Nudge) as a metric for measuring the success of branded content. Ensuring that people are arriving AND paying attention, is the leading indicator of success by any downstream metric.

The Telegraph has been bringing in sales guarantees in to the pitch. From crunching data from thousands of branded content campaigns and their pre- and post-analyses from the last five years, The Telegraph found that hitting certain content benchmarks will drive either awareness, consideration or propensity to buy. Based on post-campaign analysis the publisher found that an uptick in one of these metrics ultimately leads to driving sales.

Brand partnerships as branded content. Delta partnered with Equinox on Furthermore, the Equinox content platform. This is the new nativception. I like this piece, combining looking after yourself through pre-during and post flight. Sweatlag!